A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
AUSTHORPE, a township in Whitkirk parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Selby railway, 4 miles E of Leeds. It includes the hamlets of Barrowby and Great and Little Manston. Acres, 660. Real property, £1,966. Pop., 231. Houses, 44. Smeaton, the civil engineer, born in 1724, was a native; and his monument, with a representation on it of his greatest work, the Eddystone lighthouse, is in Whitkirk church.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Austhorpe CP/Tn Whitkirk AP Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Austhorpe |
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